| 单词 | plaint |
| 例句 | The women I knew back in New York grumbled from down low in the gut, in messy plaints, everything spoken in 2 A.M. arias. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Will the sun forget to streak?’ is no hysterical outburst of operatic tragedy, nor is it a plaint of sentimental, self-indulgent misery. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Never before had humanity so badly needed its music to share the burden of anxiety, and composers everywhere answered this plaint. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Along with Sephardic songs, full of desperate lovers’ plaints, she sings her own material and a translation of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Playlist : Ache and Anger, Desire and Tenacity 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z And “I Could Use a Love Song,” her most conventional country number, is phenomenal, a meditative plaint with clear passion. Review: Why ‘Hero’ Is an Outstanding Country Music Debut 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z "What seemed to be political fanaticism," he writes in the former novel, "was only an excuse, a parable, a manifesto of fidelity, a coded plaint of unrequited love." Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Community Outcast could have been another litany of plaints about Britain's underclass, but it's moving not mawkish, and even when he rhymes "mummy" and "tummy" it's poignant, not puerile. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z But her funny, hectoring tone and her perky mien — she breaks into occasional bouts of funky dance now and then — bring a lively new perspective to an oft-heard plaint. Review: Too Many Cupcake Shops, Says Penny Arcade 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s a plaint sung from the vantage of a lion in a cage, put there by a cruel admirer. Music Review: A Big Man Who Can Belt a Tune Isn?t Afraid to Show a Mellow Side, Too 2011-06-03T21:57:13Z “Lonely Lover” is a playful little plaint: “Give a little space ‘cause I’m going insane/And I just need to breathe today,” she sings, with a poise and agility that suggest she’ll get by. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet, I’m not convinced that improving the American educational system is really at the heart of Cannon’s plaint about religion coverage and his subsequent post on Kermit Gosnell. Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z Before the first word is sung, he establishes a feeling of unease and plaint with stark, acidic brass chords, caressed and dragged down simultaneously by dusky descending strings. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z Social media is filled with the plaints of parents with houses full of children who should be expending their energy somewhere else. Motherlode Blog: More Winter, Less School 2014-01-29T01:59:09Z Yet, when discretion doth bereave The plaints that they should utter,Then thy discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z Her plaint retreads all the usual themes of misogyny, the legacy of trauma, and, of course, guns, but these issues distract from the bigger, more complex forces at work. What if the drunk mac-and-cheese douchebag was armed? 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet by the chorus, Welch let her powerful voice fly, and Rawlings as well, and the song took an entirely different direction with a plaint that miraculously turned hopeful. Gillian Welch ? simple, spare, stunning 2011-07-14T21:09:04Z He returned with an acoustic guitar for “Butterfly,” the album’s closing plaint: “Every time I pin down what I think I want it slips away.” Music Review: All Aboard an Alt-Rock Time Machine 2010-12-19T22:56:09Z Another, again on Saturday, was Warren Ellis of the Australian band the Dirty Three, who bleeds emotional affect through his violin, playing one bereft minor-key plaint after another, high-kicking and tossing his hair and beard. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z Oh, the plaints that were written bemoaning the death of something called "event TV", plaints that I shall sum up by listing key phrases: "Anyone remember Bob Hope and his xyzmillion viewers?" The real winner at the Oscars this year 2011-02-23T07:00:04Z A frustrated plaint from an overtaxed ticketing agent trying to calm them. Review: ‘Fiorello!,’ the Mayor Who Fought for the Little Guy 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The main set closed with an anguished, triumphant, cathartic “Helena,” the sort of aggressive plaint that was once its bread and butter but that in light of the group’s evolving direction, felt nostalgic. Music Review: Fantastical Thrust (and Hair Color) 2010-12-05T22:42:00Z Yellow Ostrich used a looping device that let its lead singer assemble vocal harmonies in songs that jumped all over the place, from wry plaints to assertive, tightly wound rock. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z Coming from anyone else her age, this plaint would be unremarkable. Film: An Ageless Diva of a Certain Age 2010-11-19T04:13:00Z Not only is “A Little Respect” a really good song, they said, a really catchy song — but for a lover’s plaint it communicates a strange joy. 'Mateluna' at REDCAT: Part high-concept political drama, part true-crime mystery 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Ostensibly Mr. Fraser’s song is about people who exaggerate what they have in order to seem cool, but distilled down to the six-second plaint, it’s a universal call of exhaustion and taunt. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z For those under Collins’s spell, our plaint will always be the same: more. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z O’Connor’s, with its silence, turns the original plaint into a jolt. The Night Sinead O’Connor Took on the Pope on ‘SNL’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Arguably the voice that makes Macklemore’s “Same Love” credible, Mary Lambert’s soothing plaint now adorns her own EP, “She Keeps Me Warm.” The week ahead: ‘Journey to the South Pacific,’ Black History Month begins 2014-01-22T22:40:15Z He got one break when “I Need a Dollar,” an unemployed man’s plaint from his 2010 album, “Good Things,” was used as the theme for an HBO series, “How to Make It in America.” New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z And why, I hear you plaint in your nasal, trans-Atlantic tones, were the dear little things on the public highway to begin with? T Magazine: Fare Grounds 2012-11-28T16:00:38Z The finished song is desolate but resilient, a hell of a plaint. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Labrinth intones the title as a falsetto plaint above hollow, puffing organ chords that hark back to Brian Wilson; the beat is slow, sporadic, almost stumbling. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In the silence that follows that line, you can almost hear the eternal maternal follow-up plaint: “But what has he done for me?” Review: In the Disturbing ‘Dana H.,’ Whose Voice Is It Anyway? 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z In a lovely plaint for the forgotten men and women, Eliot sings: Review: A Vonnegut Madman Tangled in Thickets of Dark Satire 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Sanyal’s delivery of Warren’s bitter plaints about having to abandon his dream of creating video games to work at his father’s store are hyper-nerdy and too calculatedly zany. | 'After.' : In ?After.? by Chad Bekim, an Ex-Con Returns - Review 2011-09-22T02:01:10Z It’s the plaint of someone who’s never sure which followers are also friends. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Returns Lovelorn, and Zack de la Rocha Returns Furious 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z What elevates these beyond mere plaints is Ms. Evans’s robust and sweet voice. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z His new songs were different: gentle plaints and confessions, delivered over softly brushed acoustic guitar. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z If this is Greenberg’s plaint as well — the scent of despair does waft off the stage — I hope he has now worked through it. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Can we, came the plaint from a reader at the end of yesterday's New Band of the Day column, have a new act doing something actually, properly new? New band of the day ? No 1,080: Caged Animals 2011-08-09T15:48:00Z Michael Kiwanuka’s second album, “Love & Hate,” is a sustained, stylized plunge into despair: plaints of isolation, doubt, lovelessness, racial injustice, longing, hopelessness and a certain resolve despite it all, often set to mournful minor chords. Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Love & Hate’ Plunges Into Despair, With a Retro Feel 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “Losing My Religion,” a mandolin-driven plaint from the band’s seventh album, “Out of Time,” surpassed “Stand” as its most successful single and quickly became inescapable. After a Trip Back in Time, Michael Stipe Is Ready to Return to Music 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s a familiar plaint, one often issued by Hillary Clinton. Melania Trump: Out of Africa, Still in Costume 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The more we learn about him — his fits of anger, his propensity to spank his daughter when she misbehaves, his endless plaints about wanting more attention from Judy — the more insufferable he becomes. | 'Parents? Evening': Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston at Flea Theater 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z In “Send In the Clowns,” for example, he couched the famous plaint about missed romantic chances largely in the language of the theater, because the character singing it is an aging actress: Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z This teeming life, these unexpectedly touching scenes, come to the reader as both refreshing breeze and melancholy plaint, for what is observed here, what is gloried, is also what is inevitably lost with dying. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The album winds down with a lovesick plaint, “10 Lovers”; a pained reflection, “In Our Prime”; and finally a brusque kiss-off, “Gotta Get Away.” New Music: New albums by the Black Keys and Swans 2014-05-12T22:08:25Z But its enduring anthem was this plaint, sung by a former slave, about the mindless ol’ Mississippi River. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Mr. Cumberbatch was adding his plaint to those of a number of actors who have tried to address the scourge of cellphone use during performances — often less eloquently. Benedict Cumberbatch to Fans: No Cellphones, Please 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s clearly autobiographical — “Too proper for the black kids/Too black for the Mexicans” — on the way to a broader outsider’s plaint: “I look around and I feel alone/I never feel like I belong.” Miguel Thrives on Dualities in His New Album, ‘Wildheart’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The song, from her 2015 album “Art Angels,” is both a plaint and a taunt: to recording companies courting her, to fans hating any change, to her own ambivalent pop ambitions. The Playlist: Bob Dylan’s New Song and Merle Haggard’s Final Recording 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues. ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ Will Make You Want to Sing Out 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Won’t it be the same old plaint, echoing across the ruin of our hopes? How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z This is the existential plaint, clarified in grief and anger, of every parent who has ever had a kid in trouble: "I will not forgive you / Sun of emptiness / Sky of blank clouds," Hirsch insists. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z In that setting, Burnett speak-sings his way through free-associative songs that contain biblical allusions, echoes of the blues, tall tales, lovers’ plaints and warnings about disinformation, the cult of personality and the encroachments of technology. T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z “What seemed to be political fanaticism,” he writes there, “was only an excuse, a parable, a manifesto of fidelity, a coded plaint of love.” Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Instead of breaking something open, and for all its self-conscious daring, “Beau Is Afraid” stays in a relatively safe lane as one more Portnoy-esque plaint about Mom’s inhumanity to man. Review | ‘Beau Is Afraid’: Mom’s inhumanity to man 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z A month and a half after that rant about Cruz, I ripped into him again, and while I cited fresh developments, I repeated old plaints. Opinion | Ted Cruz, I’m Sorry 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z These points are not the most cynical aspect of McConnell’s plaint, however. Column: Despite rising pandemic costs, Republicans are already talking about cutting off aid 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z This is the myopic plaint of the time refugee, unable to credit the past because he isn’t in it. How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z And yet, this plaint is regularly repeated when it comes to artists accused of abusive behaviour, even now, after everything. People rush to excuse rock stars behaving badly – even the mediocre ones | Hadley Freeman 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z This observation isn’t the perennial “kids these days” plaint by your middle-aged correspondent. Kids Today Are Being Socialized to Think They're Fragile Snowflakes 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The common plaint: The changes demonstrate that protecting students is not a priority for DeVos. Making America’s colleges safer for rapists 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The “proverb” that opens the film is less a truth than a plaint: “Ah! Let the time come/When hearts fall in love!” The Strange, Enduring Appeal of Biarritz 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The trade plaint became a core element of Trump’s speeches to business groups and college commencements. Over four decades, Trump’s one solid stance: A hard line on trade 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The song, from the album “One More Light,” is a pounding plaint about loneliness, alienation and “all the walls that you keep building.” null 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Raspail’s book is not so much a warning as a plaint—a catastrophic summoning up of the loss of a coherent identity rooted in a common church and culture. Franco-American 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z I listen to the plaints of patients trapped in the new normal. Sometimes Pain Is a Puzzle That Can't Be Solved 1467-06-12T05:00:00Z At the start, we hear an orchestra tuning up, the plaint of seagulls, and the crackle of a ship-to-shore conversation with the captain of a container vessel. In “Batman v Superman,” Nobody Wins 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s both a plaint against the present and a pining for the past, but also an acceptance that we are where we are. The Year We Obsessed Over Identity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “We need a European response,” he added, sounding a common plaint. Europe’s Halting Response to Migrant Crisis Draws Criticism as Toll Mounts 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z He kvetches as its tip pushes toward his spinal column, though it is a good-natured plaint. On the Hunt for a Multiple Sclerosis Cure But this was not, in my view, your standard plaint for succor. Hong Kong Is Un-occupied But In Ferment 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In any other context, that plaint would sound like garden-variety teen angst, one of the normal cares and concerns of the age cohor. We have much to learn about homegrown terrorism 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It is a plaint heard regularly here, with particular pathos during hostilities. For Gazans, a Tense and Somber Ramadan 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z This was a plaint, too, and it cut even deeper. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Relive Box.” 2014-03-10T04:00:00Z The company will create another 180 jobs at a new powertrain plaint. GM adding third shift, 2630 jobs at Brazil complex - company 2013-01-27T21:52:32Z Mickelson’s airing of his grievances was sufficiently tacky that even Forbes.com, a publication with an attitude towards wealth that might be described as breathless, gushing, rapture, found the golfer’s plaint a bit, um, rich. Phil Mickelson regrets whining about taxes 2013-01-22T18:53:00Z The playground plaints about how busy you are aren't necessarily designed to inspire pity or aid, so much as a deep and awestruck admiration in your listener for just how much you do. How the Fiat ad captures the essence of modern motherhood 2013-01-07T09:59:00Z A thirteenth century poem, hailing from Bavaria or Austria, strikes a more tragic note: Alas for my young days, alas for my plaint. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z When I am with you I am unable to say it...old plaint. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z He plays no part in what is going on, so that his silence is as it were a rock fixed in the current of plaints and disputes. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z What plaints from the dead, what curses of babes hanging on dry breasts! The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z From every side came the heartrending appeals, while the din was so great that no single plaint rose above the volume of sounds. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Secure you ask: Does peace, Or restless seeking plaint come with your wealth's increase? Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Like most “Gornovo melodies” it was meant to be gay, and like all of them it was pervaded by the mixed sadness of the Exiled People and the brooding, far-away plaint of their Slavic neighbours. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Now to me my purpose in life is plain, For the plaints that assail thine ears all in vain Wring my heart with the passion of infinite pain. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z The other checked her plaint with an uplifted hand. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Sarah Orne Jewett, in the plaint of A Mournful Villager, has drawn a beautiful and sympathetic picture of these front yards, and she deplores their passing. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Lions and bears resign the charms of sleep To hear my lonely plaint, and see me weep; At my approaching death e'en stones relent. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z He tried to catch the keynote of the foreman's plaint. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z He stammered out "I respect holy Church and her will; he shall fire the churchyard, and all in it, for me: I do withdraw the plaint." The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z In form it was simply an injunction on a plaint. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z These piteous plaints only rouse the ire of their cruel task-masters, who sometimes knock them down in the midst of their pleadings. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Was it beastly to die without a com- plaint, without a murmur—to pass from life without a fear? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Disgruntled owners were loudly denouncing the Maury conditions-list, and they redoubled their plaint at sight of the two new victims of the trick. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Here, each day, Istar was accustomed to sit for an hour, hearing many plaints, listening to many woes, learning much of the piteous side of the lives of men and women of the world. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Somewhere in the hedge a bird was singing, a full-throated sobbing plaint, and from all around came an incessant chirping and twittering. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z The song, I gathered, was a plaint, and had a strange and outlandish melancholy, the voice now lifting into a wild, keening note, now sinking abruptly to a dreary monotone. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Possibly influenced in some measure by such plaints as these, the early clubs devoted themselves for the most part to study, and their range of activities was strictly limited and defined. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z But her plaint served only to increase Knave's zest for destruction. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z When this was over the Greek retired alone to the sanctuary, where, from the sacred image, he was to listen to the plaints of those that came to seek aid in trouble. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Well might the echoes tell sadly that day The plaint of the mothers that cried at Kingairloch The day that the lambs were taken away.” Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z She played soft, wistful morsels, then suddenly broke off in the midst of one sentimental plaint, and left the piano, dropping into a low chair by the fire. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Not, not too much, Virgin, to plaints give way; Nor will, nor can, thy Son long from thee stay. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z But the King heard his plaint while passing beneath his dungeon window, and set him free. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z My plaint for their spurning To heaven took wing,— Sweet voices said, yearning, "Sing, Little One, sing!" A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z When Leon moved, Ramon led him aside, and in a low tone made his plaint. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Bitter was her plaint of the servant's mismanagement; when she herself had looked after the house there had been no lack of cobwebs in the corners. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Vain men! each stone which consecrates their plaints Doth tell us of the stones by which they perish'd. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Now bend they low as the wind mounts higher, And its eerie voice comes piercingly, Like the plaint of humanity's misery, And its burden of vain desire. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z There was no exultation over the fallen enemy, no music brayed out triumphal strains of victory, only the wailing notes of funeral marches in saddened plaints echoed across the water. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z Her heart uttered the old plaint: "They seem to have everything and I nothing." Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children 2011-12-22T03:00:21.710Z "I get so little," ran his bitter plaint, "that I couldn't live, if it were not for the fasts." The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z But Forbes was too young in his own anxieties to give much importance to her ancient plaints, though she was not too old to understand his. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z He half guessed her feeling for Jack O’Hara; but Jack’s devotion to Eileen had recently become so plaint to all except Eileen herself, that he did not let it trouble him. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z The wood-wind and viol follow Orpheus in his solitary plaint that again reminds us of the voice of nature. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z I was familiar with this plaint, and proffered him the yard boy. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z It had no touch of bitterness, no plaint of sadness; yet the yearning note of a heart dry with most intense grief was there—sounded on the chord of dethroned reason. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Sounds soft and low, like the plaintive strains of a viol, rose up from afar, like music of the sea, the plaint of a thousand voices which never became melody. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z That night there came upon my soul the shadow of an awful fear; sorrowful moans and plaints disturbed my dreams that have never since been wholly forgot. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z "So you have come formally to me with your people's plaint and expect me to solve a question that you yourselves can not solve," Flaccus said. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Surely, surely the spirit of the world is the spirit of plaint and dole. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z And when at night her love flew to his place, More than afore she shamed his fond embrace, And piteously with tears her plaint renew'd. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z For the most part it was verses from the Psalter, but plaints as well, and other quaint conceits which touched me by their simplicity. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z The incident shows how much the pigeon's plaint resembles some human sounds. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z And all these things thou didst suffer and didst take no more revenge than to write thy plaint to me, eight hundred miles away! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z On another occasion, those presented themselves who had first absented themselves, saying in like manner, that they ought not to answer without their peers who were joined with them in the same plaint. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z The denials were most indignant, and were usually accompanied by the typical plaint that the charge was "persecution." The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z While the head was weeping and uttering bitter plaints, came out from the forest the child of nine years old, whom the Miserable had killed first of all. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z Let each one raise his voice to ours 30 And utter fearful plaints. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z I supposed him about to exhale some plaint, but I was mistaken. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The abbot and the sacrist both refused this, and therefore the plaint was again put in respite. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z In her own stateroom the Far Away Lady sat at her window, but seeing no whirling snow, hearing not the plaint of the dying wind. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z His voice turned hoarse, and the last words sounded like a plaint. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z Tis time To rend this shining raiment, meet for feasts, To voice our plaints; for none can this forbid. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Sweetly dost thou sing, but it hath made my heart sad to hear thy little plaint.” A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z He could not bear to hear the plaint of poor King Googagoo. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z There were the usual plaints, but he did not notice them. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z His noble, quiet countenance seemed to convey a silent plaint, but the speech of his eyes was eloquent. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z She had an instinctive dread of intimate confidences; and the tone of Pamela’s plaint occurred to her as significant of a desire to unburden herself. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z "Lone"—and the word drawled like a plaint. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The men cheer themselves with comical plaints 221 about the heat, the food, the Brazils, and make sudden dabs at bare flesh when the insects bite them. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z "All the same, to go back to my original plaint," urged Bess, "we're pretty well kept within the bounds of our own Coll. this term, so why not do something on our own—something unique?" The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z Death canonized for us one saint, Ever less human than divine, And still we lay, with tender plaint, Relics in this household shrine.— Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z I had selected a young white oak, whose branches were interlaced with creepers, to shelter myself and Czar, and had got out of the way of two lofty planes which were singing their death plaint. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The rain drummed fiercely upon the tin roof, giant rats scurried to and fro in the darkness, and the night long there came from the cot the desolate plaint. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z I found Pan crouched by the river's edge, His hoofed feet hid by the rushy sedge, And I listened his plaint. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z It was one of her mother’s plaints that Tessa had no feeling. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z Meeting her Lord one day in the palace gardens, she read the agony in his face; and after listening to his plaints, she gently, though fearlessly, reprimanded him. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z This plaint cut him to the heart even more than her suspicions. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Mrs. Dean had entered the room in time to hear Marjorie’s plaint. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z As our first mother’s folly cost Her sex so dear, and makes men grieve, So Milton’s plaint of Eden lost Would be appropriate to Eve. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z And I remained cast down, sad, and silent, making plaint unto myself. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 2011-07-18T02:00:24.030Z At the same moment the music in the ball-room seemed changed to the low wailing plaint and muffled drums, the military homage to some mighty dead. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z And it fell on a time that the damoiseau who was so fair and valiant came unto his love, and speaking, made her his plaint. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z In fashion reflective, with plaint or invective, We view in perspective the year in eclipse, The duties neglected, the faults uncorrected, The blunders, the failures, the slips! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z He was not nettled by Webb's disfavor, and even smiled on the rancher indulgently as he listened to the querulous plaint. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z If you have patience, and believe what I say, certes, you have but to make plaint as I have done, and you will soon be able to attain your desire. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 2011-07-18T02:00:24.030Z For a little while there was no sound in the room but Winifred’s plaints, while ever and anon the walls shook with the crash of the cannonade and the bursting of shells. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Hour after hour, they sat in the hushed upper chamber, facing their nearing desolation, without a plaint or an audible sigh. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Ah, those strains of tender sadness! how they rose and fell in persistent plaint! how they mourned, and whispered of hope, mourned again in homeless accents! Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Keats then tells how his hero, paying his vows to the gods, is interrupted by the plaint of a forsaken Indian damsel which reaches him through the forest undergrowth. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The landlord's character was well known to him by means of the plaints and invectives of their neighbours, most of whom were tenants of the same man. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z No sound was heard in the British encampment except the melancholy plaint of the pipes mourning for the dead, during the interment of those who had fallen. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Now her plaint penetrated to his waking consciousness. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Cease, cease, my love, this tender voice of woe, Though softer than the dying cygnet's plaint: She ever chants her most melodious strain When death and sorrow harmonise her note. The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts 2011-05-31T02:00:32.980Z Sometimes it is a plaint of a mother whose child has met the fate of those "whom the gods love." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Hush! the plaint of dreams that would return! Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z His main plaint was for the sight of Carson, whom he had not recognised. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z "I am sad; the plaints of the nightingale strike upon my soul like echoes of future ones," said Victor. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The County Court registrars in the small courts are unfortunately paid by fees on the number of plaints issued. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z A glance at the daughter of Greek Calabria will throw some light on the plaints of her devoted suitors. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z So to see This woman with these eyes of mine, made true And unpersuadable of her plaints and ways I gave consent and went.” Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z The oppressive heat of nature drew longer and louder plaints from the nightingales, and evanescent aroma from the long flower-meads. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z This heartfelt plaint of Dirrik's was received with loud applause by the rest of the school. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Could we only foresee them, is the plaint of men! I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z Another song gives the piteous plaint of an unhappy partridge who was snared and eaten. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z "How can we tell," is the burden of her plaint, "that they will leave her alone?" Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Here, and afterwards while in her tent, she pours forth her plaints against the treachery of Bireno. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z After receiving the plaint of the Princess Olsdorf, the Consistory of St. Petersburg had sent a commission of inquiry to the venerable priest of the Rue Daru. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z How great his pleasure who can justly say, All at this moment either bless or love me; The people at my name betray no fear, Nor in their plaints does heaven e'er hear of me! A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z And if she is so irreverently maltreated, can she afford any protection to those who must rely on her alone, having no riches to maintain protracted litigation or carry their plaints to higher tribunals? The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z We saw them not; but their wild plaints proved that they were spectators of the horrid scene. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The squiress, escaped from her presumptuous solicitor, makes her plaint to her fellows. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z And then she plunged once more into the hot-pressed pages of the "Alien," and read Mr. Lansdell's plaints, on toned paper, with long s's that looked like f's. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z A low murmur sighed among the leaves of the shrubbery in the park,--melancholy, mysterious, alluring, yet mingled with a soft plaint, breathing above the late summer roses. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z She smiled back, however, filled a paper bag with what he required, and went out to resume her knitting by the door, while Geoffrey sat on chatting, and listening to the poor woman’s plaints. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z Meanwhile, good Isabella, cease thy plaints, Or, at the least, dissemble them awhile; So shall we sooner find the practise out, And learn by whom all this was brought about. The Spanish Tragedy 2011-02-21T03:00:10.373Z "And I am sure that, in spite of your groans and plaints, you will apply yourself to your new task like a man of courage," cried the doctor. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z And first, do you hear in the distance that strange chant which is not wanting in melody and charm, when it rises afar in the air, like the plaint of love? Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Munday’s admonition had been delivered in a tone too serious to be disregarded; and the ouistiti was permitted to utter its plaint, without a single word being addressed to it, either of chiding or consolation. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Nearer and nearer came the wailing plaint of the girl looking for her dead soldier. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Where shall I run to breath abroad my woes,— My woes whose weight hath wearied the earth, Or mine exclaims that have surcharg'd the air With ceaseless plaints for my deceased son? The Spanish Tragedy 2011-02-21T03:00:10.373Z Be silent now, I pray thee, and thy plaints confine To secret woe. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z She mourned that while the beating of the waves pierced the hardest rocks, her piteous plaints only hardened the tyrant's heart against her. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Sighs frequently answered the guns, and if we talked we poured out plaints of pity for those who fought, or called up remembrances of happier days. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Faster and faster grew the dance, more and more weird the wail of the violin, and the plaint from the girl for her lover's life became a frenzied cry. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z As the wild plaints of Isabel pierced into his bosom's core, they carried with them the first inkling of the extraordinary conceit, so vaguely and shrinkingly hinted at in her till now entirely unintelligible words. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The Beresford carried his plaint to the headquarters of the Tory party in London, and told Pitt that Fitzwilliam was turning out all the faithful supporters of the government. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z There she began a most piteous plaint, as if to force Belphœbe to understand who this was. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z The plaint of Alsace rose to his ear for the first 96 time, the complaining cry the stranger does not hear and the conqueror only half listens to, but can never understand. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z The Secretary was aggrieved and showed it; but the result of his plaint was most unexpected. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z A spring rattled a disordered plaint; then after a silence: "I served you—did my work well—very well—very well!..." She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Since he could not subdue, the plaint alone remained to him; since he could not mould circumstances, they glimmer in naked, untamed, humanly-divine beauty through his work. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z But she returned to her luckless plaint a moment later. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Regardless of their teams' seedings, Big East coaches share the same plaint: Winning the Big East tournament, to borrow a phrase from the business world, is "a big ask." Big East conference tournament set to tip off at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-09T05:00:00Z I heard the butler making his plaint about it yesterday. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z It came to me like needed rain—straight to the heart of mine that little plaint in the song. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Now he was whining out a personal plaint in the words of his “song ballet.” The Law of Hemlock Mountain Wild with his pain, he sought the bright abodes, There, sullen, sate beneath the sire of gods, Shewed the celestial blood, and with a groan, Thus poured his plaints before the immortal throne. Heathen Mythology Man grieves amid the bursting storms When smiles the calm he grieves; Nor cease his woes, nor sinks his plaint Till dust his dust receives. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Ever and anon the plaint of the abandoned infant reached their ears. The Great Mogul As we went along we heard the wounded bear lowing ceaselessly behind us; it filled the whole of this silent world of ice with its bitter plaint over the cruelty of man. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 But on the morrow—hark! the sound Of sorrow's wailings echoes round: What means the tear—the plaint—the sigh? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The scraps of her plaint were borne off by the wind, the engine snorted more vigorously, and the last remnants went down with me in the roar of a far-off, formidable lullaby. Woman That checked her plaint at once, as he knew it would. Beggars on Horseback "I never expected to hear that plaint from a man of your cheerful disposition." The Inventions of the Idiot Irene insisted on taking the boy for a time, and the youngster ceased his plaint at once. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Still literature, art, and commerce have as free a welcome in Washington salons as anywhere else, despite the plaints of overlooked suppliants. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 How unfortunate!—for us, I mean—for, indeed, your client cannot join in the plaint. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) His plaint ran thus:— "I often said they should pension off the Irish Secretary after three years, as they do the Chief Justice of Gambia." Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Then the books are made to utter their plaint because of the indignity to which they are subjected by the degenerate clergy. The Story of Books He had attired his withered and lean figure in brilliant hues and the finest lace, and in this attire he trained the girl, also fantastically dressed, to warble the most touching and delicious plaints. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance But have ye heart to hold Such plaint before the Lord, to apprise Him of this thing In its full naked fact and call your reckoning? Satan Absolved When in his courtiers’ ears I pour my plaint, 60 They drink it as the nectar of the great; And squeeze my hand, and beg me come to-morrow. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Tommy and the ex-Pirate stopped and looked about them; but they could not see any one, and were about to proceed on their way, when they heard the same plaint again. Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 Helena, with a curious sensation that was almost fear—fear, it may be, of herself—realised that his plaint, oft-heard, left her cold this morning. Helena Brett's Career And the plaint began again, monotonous, muffled: "Whaur's that pipe o' mine?" Where the Pavement Ends All the same her life was one of slavery, and needed no embittering by her mother’s reproaches and plaints. The New Mistress A Tale Eric considered it entirely inappropriate to sing aloud here, in a joyous company upon the Rhine, the plaint of a sorely burdened soul breathed out to the lonely night. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Not a day passes but I hear moan and plaint from some sufferer. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories Such was the only plaint uttered, by the sufferer, and it was not even a plaint; it was a prayer he addressed to God, imploring pardon for his tormentors. The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth And having none, why worry Lou with plaints that might agitate her? The Heart of a Woman The modern philosophers of pessimism had the correct feeling in adopting the Hindu conception, and emphasizing the pain and misery of existence, repeating Job's ancient plaint over the hard destiny of mankind. Jewish Theology In the silence the stranger’s plaint made itself distinctly audible: “Leff’ ’em on a table; ’n’ whar is they at now? Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls Oh, faithful companions of my sorrows, why do you thus afflict me with your plaints. Ten Girls from History "What's that to you?" demanded Giraffe, from outside the limits of the camp proper; he having heard the plaint. The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine A feeble plaint is occasionally heard to ascend from the recesses of the heap. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) But even then she made her plaints of Lancelot's coldness so mournfully, that the ghostly father bade her cease such thoughts. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality But is there any substance in the plaint that nobody now buys books, meaning thereby second-hand books? A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time What speedy way of wing my plaints should they lay on, To 'scape the stormy blast that threatened is to me? English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But such mishaps were lost to sight, Amid the common wild delight,— For little plaint do Brownies make O'er bump or bruise or even break. The Brownies: Their Book Bear, O Michael of great miracles, To the Lord my plaint. Ancient Irish Poetry The unique experiences of individual seamen—the trials of seafaring under less favourable circumstances than was the writer's good fortune—the plaints and grievances of our internal affairs—are but lightly sketched. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war He had only to make bitter plaint in the German tongue. The Bartlett Mystery Now lone and pathless, overflows With bitter plaint his wearied heart; Trembling beneath his lute he goes, And vanquished by a deeper smart. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Yet I could not make plaint against the Omnipotence, which probably had, in this mysterious fashion, steered his bark away from reefs, which might have wrecked it, into this secure haven. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. L�tkens lodged his plaint before the proper tribunal, and the woman was taken into custody. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; the solitary place was glad; And on the distant cairn the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) He was conscious only of the thrum of the car, the spurts of flame, the whistle of lead, the hysterical frenzy of Winifred’s plaints. The Bartlett Mystery "Water! water!" was the burden of his plaint from morn till night, and from night till morn; and when too weak to speak, his hollow, bloodshot eyes still begged for water. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge It had an uncanny sound, this plaint of grief in such a quiet, sunlit spot. The Silent Barrier The opposition it receives intensifies its plaint, and it rushes angrily through the branches. In the Brooding Wild High in the tree branches she could hear the voice of the wind, a melody of the night, low and sad, the plaint of an endless, incommunicable sorrow. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War One day there was brought before him the plaint of three good ladies of Strasburg who, at one same hour of the same day, had been struck by an arm unseen. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages It was the suddenness of the shock that made me utter that unmanly plaint. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge In robin's song, the whip-poor-will Pours forth his plaint so near. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children Yesterday we were listening to the sublime and gloomy plaint which breathes from Barbusse's Under Fire. The Forerunners The owl's call was to his mate, as was the roosters', but there was no bombast in its plaint, just a mournfulness of endearment, a touch of tears at the silence and delay. Old Plymouth Trails In the deep green of the bushes a nightingale pealed forth his liquid plaint into the balmy night air, while from the ballroom inside the tuning of violins mingled inharmoniously. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day When I hear thy plaints of misery I will let fall the tear; but remember that ‘laws determine even the fates.’ Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 The plaint of the meadow-lark and the note of the robin sounded sweetly against the stillness of the air. Peggy Owen and Liberty ‘Have pity, my God, have pity on us!’ they call; but they weep in vain, for God has closed His ears to their plaints. Legends & Romances of Brittany Many a summer afternoon I have seen nighthawks circling erratically above Boston Common, and there their cry has sounded like a plaint. Old Plymouth Trails "Father, I--I'm with you--I'll stop with you," cried Rosa, shaken by his plaint. Absolution Soh! 'tis a sigh—low drawn and very faint, A spirit stirring 'mid the slumb'ring dead, Bodiless, homeless, breathing forth its plaint, Nor yet from life and its sad memories fled. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems But he sung it as a plaint, yet not hopelessly, and Mademoiselle Berthe was the maid entreated of his melody. The Missourian So he looked away and, after a minute, the Widow again took up her plaint. Shadow Mountain The whippoor-will saw it, too, and began his call, which I do not find a melancholy plaint, but rather an eager asking. Old Plymouth Trails Koala, of course, began the usual plaint about his poverty and inoffensiveness. Finn The Wolfhound The man of the sea resumed his plaint. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The words, "I am so thirsty," ceased to be her plaint. Shirley But again the plaint fell upon his ears; and as he peered through the darkness, holding his breath to listen, he knew it was a human voice. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The sighing of thy soul He ever, And thy heart's deep plaint is hearing; What to another thou wouldst never Tell, reveal to God, ne'er fearing. Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly At dusk the call of the whippoorwill mingles with the chorus of the pickerel frogs, and in the morning I hear through the robins' cheerful burst the sombre plaint of the mourning-dove. Whitman A Study From the depths beyond drifted the weird plaint of the sloth, crying in the night, "Oh me, poor sloth, oh-oh-oh-oh!" The Pathless Trail Kate, with a pang at the heart for this clear-eyed child of hers, answered as best she could this plaint of clever women since the world began. Kildares of Storm That voice expressed more than a salutation, a prayer, or a plaint. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' I will write no more in my journal for a season—why should I make this record of my weary life—this plaint of my troubled soul? Mabel's Mistake The plaint of the wood pewee, pensive and like a human sigh, is far from pessimistic, although in a minor key. Under the Maples "Tall, athletic and manly, dignified, but graceful," he stood as the chosen exponent of his people's wrongs, ready to voice their plaints in the "musical and euphonious" accents of the Shawnee tongue. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Marie hitched up the left half of his suspenders and began his old plaint: "Think of that old geezer, old enough to—" "Oh, I don't know," broke in one of the listeners. Death Points a Finger Still she listened, and her beautiful face grew anxious, for the sternness of her husband's voice, in answer to those feeble plaints, gave little hopes of conciliation. A Noble Woman One minor note came and went and came again, through the melody, until the last tones fell on that note and were held suspended in a tremulous plaint. The Eye of Dread When they did arrive they were full of plaints, which, however, no one could understand. Is He Popenjoy? This plaint was answered from the distance and soon a number of anti-renters hastened to the spot. The Strollers All afternoon Mackenzie had heard the plaint of lambs; they had lifted their wavering chorus all during Joan’s lesson, giving her great concern that Carlson designed attempting a trespass on her father’s land. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek And it would have been impossible to guess how far he was affected by Minky’s plaint. The Twins of Suffering Creek Her peevish plaint at the journey, her railing at the stupidity and impertinence of the teamster, her expressed disgust at the country, her complaining of everything. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Your dancing feet are faint, Lovers: the air recedes Into a sighing plaint, Faint, as your loves are faint. Silhouettes Its disclosure was viewed as a sufficing answer to the German Chancellor's plaint that the United States had "brusquely" broken off relations without giving "authentic" reasons for its action. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources This, in its turn, is succeeded by a movement that seems to carry us into the brightness outside, though still the plaint of crying birds pursues us in haunting monotony. A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Sunny realized his position by the expression of the other men’s faces, and, quickly resuming his good-humored plaint, he acquiesced with a grumble. The Twins of Suffering Creek But gradually, as the day wore on, the morning impetus gave way, and peevish tongues voiced the general plaint. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills No matter when, by whom, how hard or how gently it was struck, the bell moaned the one plaint as if crying, "I want to go back to Miidera." Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan These elegiac strains were never intended for any but the eye of mutual friends, whose sympathies, like his own, poured out tears with their plaints over the dead. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 He had told his love to the listening winds; he had whispered it to his pillow; he had mingled his plaint with that of the running brooks. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI Have no fear," answered Jupiter; "I have heard thy plaint, and have come hither to show thee how greatly thou dost wrong me. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault To the priest this worthy made His angry plaint without delay: "You give best thanks for Ager�, As if your tithes we had not paid!" Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The Indians also, whose sad plaint against the inevitable civilization of the locomotive is still ringing in all ears, must succumb before the presence of this new power. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 If power “Is granted, when in public walks I roam: “If here in woods imprison'd, all the woods “Shall with my plaints resound; the conscious rocks “I'll move. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II It is not prayer, This clamor of our eager wants That fills the air With wearying, selfish plaints. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul This plaint of an American of the old days expresses my meaning; it has been noted again and again, particularly by those who visited America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Whenever she appeared, the mother bluebird set up that pitiful melodious plaint. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 O, hear my plaint, I cry to Thee; Be pitiful, and pardon me, For I have sinned; O, give me grace To seek in penitence Thy face. Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church Sweeping 'mid the clotted blood Her silver'd tresses; all these plaints, and more She utter'd, as she still her bosom rent. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Reviled, rejected, and betrayed, No curse he breathed, no plaint he made, But when in death's deep pang he sighed Prayed for his murderers, and died. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Mrs. Waddington, when her daughter was come back into the room, renewed her plaint: “I wish you’d save for your parents a little of the graciousness you give your friends,” she said. The Readjustment But oh, the dreadful murmur that filled the heavy air, the tremulous, ceaseless plaint which comes from strong, muscular creatures, tenacious of life, who are dying and who die hard. The Maids of Paradise Thus, despite the siren wooing of the South, in its plaint of "Maryland, my Maryland." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II And then the hollyhock stems and the daisies both laid ’plaint of the gardener.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers And O, I cried, can this be prayer Whose plaints the steadfast mountains move? Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul No, the women-heroes in this land are those who face it with a careless, selfish husband, or perhaps in a home having no love, and who win through their little day and make no plaint. The Rhodesian O be happy! no plaint of mine shall ever reach your ear, to cloud the sunshine of your happiness. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West One of the best known of his poems is the plaint: "Mass for me will not be chanted, Kadosh not be said, Naught be sung, and naught recited, Round my dying bed." Jewish Literature and Other Essays “But what ’plaint had the daisies to offer?” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers It was broken by Ruth Howard, a girl with large, soulful brown eyes and a manner of rapt earnestness, who uttered her plaint in a tone of exceeding bitterness: "And we came together in love!" Making People Happy It came from Thérèse's little Aberdeen terrier, who stood in the boudoir door, looking up with eyes of patient inquiry and uttering continuous plaints. Juggernaut Gayarre having gone through the formula of the oath, proceeded with his plaint in true lawyer style. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West But I would make no plaint, so great my bliss. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) The words breathed vague aspirations, vague regrets, a hymn of love to the unknown, and timid plaints of the rigour of the gods and the cruelty of fate. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt This iconoclastic fashion of speech was not patiently endured by the orthodox aunt, who listened to the plaint with marked displeasure. Making People Happy Crispin pulled, and heard a feeble plaint, quickly silenced by a thunder crash. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere To which plaint the others only smiled horribly and ground their teeth. A Victor of Salamis Anyway, my dear," said Clara viciously, in answer to her sister's plaint, "we've given that young devil a bit of trouble. Bones in London What is it in the woods cannot witness my woes? and who is it would not pity my plaints? only Phœbe. A History of Elizabethan Literature The night deepened to its darkest hour; the moon, in obedience to its automatic, fixed course, had vanished behind the mountains; the frogs, out of their slime, raised their shrill plaint of life in death. Mountain Blood A Novel Aunt Isabel returned to her reading, but the plaint of her audience having ceased, she lost her enthusiasm; the second table of the law made her sleepy, and a yawn broke the nasal monotony. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Seated there by his open window he heard the owl's tremolo rise, quaver, and die away in the moonlight; he heard the murmuring plaint of marsh-fowl, and the sea-breeze stirring the reeds. Athalie O prayer By Jesus taught, thou hast become a cry For starveling mouths in Famine's ghastly lair— A beggar's plaint when Dives passes by. Pan and Æolus: Poems ‘And, from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, ‘O never, never turn away thine ear. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems I'm sick of noise and care: and now mine ear Longs for some air of peace, some dying plaint That may the spirit from it's cell unsphere. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 Is not that a sick doctor whose nerves are so full of plaints as to need the frequent soothings only found in a cigar, that also sears the nerves of taste? The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Round and round in a circle went he and Christopher, the lad constantly trying to brighten and encourage, and the clerk as invariably bringing up with this same doleful plaint. Christopher and the Clockmakers So up to the Ting of the land he goes, And straight to make his plaint began; Then murmured loud the assembled crowd, And clench’d his fist each honest man. Marsk Stig a ballad Our high-mettled racers may pass o'er the sea— Shall sentiment challenge thy claims, L. S. D.? Our pictures may go without serious plaint— What are the best pictures but canvas and paint? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 In that maiden’s breast Sorrow and loneliness sank darkly down, Though the blanch’d lips breathed out no boisterous plaint Of common grief.” Memories of Bethany The plaint was just another of the rumblings of discontent contributing to the grand explosion of thirteen years later. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia "I'm afraid that doesn't help me much," was Christopher's rueful plaint. Christopher and the Clockmakers For not in cell Does our hero dwell, But in realms of light for ever: As a ransom'd saint To heal our plaint, Be glory to thee, gold-giver! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Love works thy heart within his fire, And in my tears doth firm the same; And if I tempt, it will retire, And of my plaints doth make a game. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs The trumpet's blare is louder, the music of the lyre more varied, the plaint of the flute more pleasing, the murmurs of the pipe sweeter, the message of the bugle further heard. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura I led her in, and sat her down, but her plaint would not cease. The Grain Ship He ended in a high-toned, pitiful whine suggestive of a dog's song on a moonlight night, but this plaint was drowned in the roars of laughter raised by the audience. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives "Joyful our peal for the bridal; mournful our plaint for the dead." The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness How many dear ones, stretched along the sand, Bleed out their lives beneath a blighting sun— With but a word— 'Mother!' for plaint or prayer! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy So up to the King of the land he goes, And straight to make his plaint began; Then murmured loud the assembled crowd, And clench’d his fist each honest man. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow In the tenth year of Abbot Sampson's abbacy we monks, after full deliberation in chapter, laid our formal plaint before the abbot in his court. Stray Studies from England and Italy Childish petulances and plaints fell upon her like water upon a rock—but now and then the strong nature was rasped beyond endurance by the weak one. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 The Blue Bird heard this and did not lose a word, but waited to see who the lady was who had such a sorry plaint. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations How sad is Cuchulain’s plaint that his son Connla must go down to the grave unavenged, since his own father slew him, all unwitting! Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race When the wind sets from the south, on still mornings, I have heard a strange moaning—a low, steady, monotonous plaint, borne inland over the city. The Reckoning But never a word of plaint will be heard From robin, no matter how tired and cold; For well will he know that the winter will go, And the blossoms and greenness of spring unfold. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk I dwell by that still shore Whither thine exiled gods thou broughtest—where of yore Thou pour'dst thy plaints in life, and left thine ashes dying; With deathless, fruitless tears these places glorifying. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Not in vague tones or tricks of verbal art The plaint and pæan rung: Thine the clear utterance of an earnest heart, The limpid Saxon tongue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Afar down the slope the bay waters lay like an inky strip and the distant, murmurous plaint of the sea came out of the stillness of the night; the lights at the Cove glimmered faintly. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Thus with wild tears the aged saint Made many a time his piteous plaint, Then with his wife began to shed The funeral water for the dead. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse She spoke very quietly; but her simple words pierced deeper than the plaints of the poor old woman. Rita In the yacht's saloon below a violin sang its very soul out upon the summer night, weaving its plaint into the soft, adagio rippling of a piano's chords. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Whippings were not frequent; but when they took place, the correction was performed in a private room adjoining, where we could only hear the plaints, but saw nothing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 When she had ended her plaint the herald blew another blast, and another veiled woman came forward and charged him with her son’s murder. The Red Romance Book But Ráma's heart inclined to spare, He listened to his plaint and prayer, And cried aloud: “O Vánars, cease; The captive from his bonds release.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Then there was no more ordeal, only a frail wisp of a girl singing as he had never heard it the exile's plaint. The House of Toys Colonel Hathaway, too, intuitively recognized Alora's plaint as a human cry for help, and did not need to guess the explanation. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery A lover sighing for his mistress would have sighed less blithesomely and to the very end of his plaint. The Justice of the King A new and wonderful thought had flashed into her mind even as she listened to Cyril's plaint. An Australian Lassie Again, again Sumantra made His varied plaint, and wept and prayed. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse "Papa doesn't love me!" she uttered, like a plaint. Floyd Grandon's Honor It was a day of pardons and bounty: when the prisoner received his liberty and the settler his heritage: every inhabitant who had no plaint to prefer, had yet thanks to pay. The History of Tasmania, Volume I The plaint is of the degeneracy among men, of the destruction of primitive simplicity in Corsica by the French occupation, of his own isolation, and of his yearning to see his friends once more. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) And, but from the deep cavern there was borne200 A voice, he had been froze to senseless stone; Nor sigh of his, nor plaint, nor passion'd moan Had more been heard. Endymion A Poetic Romance Only the lonely pillow and the midnight hour shall hear my plaint. Mary Ware's Promised Land When in his courtiers’ ears I pour my plaint, They drink it as the nectar of the great; And squeeze my hand, and beg me come to-morrow. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The accumulation of debts must have been great, for at his first session fourteen hundred plaints were entered: nor did he exhaust the suitors by delay, for eleven hundred were disposed of during that year. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Here, Sammy, show these people here How most unjust their plaint, my dear. Andiron Tales Then he wished to abstract himself, and cling especially to the meaning of that sorrowful plaint, in which the fallen being calls upon its God with groans and lamentations. En Route The Master said, Not to be moved by lap and wash of slander, or by plaints that pierce to the quick, may be called insight. The Sayings Of Confucius Brotteaux indeed had never forgotten the Princess Mondragone, to whom he would most certainly have poured out his plaints but for the Count Altieri, who always followed her like her shadow. The Gods are Athirst The woeful plaint of this voice breathing above a low sinister roll of the tympanum establishes at once the atmosphere of melancholy. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions But, from beneath the shade of his umbrella, the young man recommenced his plaint. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Now and then she recalled a French verse or two, then it settled into some melancholy Indian plaint, or the evening song of a belated bird. A Little Girl in Old Quebec Yea, whom lap and wash of slander, or plaints that pierce to the quick cannot move may be called far-sighted. The Sayings Of Confucius Indiscreet persons at Richmond, claiming the privilege and discharging the duty of friendship, gave tongue to loud and frequent plaints, and increased the confusion of the hour. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynic despair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Though her conviction was unwavering, she, too, in her heart, echoed the plaint. The Heart of Unaga He followed his footsteps until he lost them, and picked up instead the angry plaint of the negro cook in the galley amidships. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Amused, at first, at these plaints, he provoked them for fun. Chance A Tale in Two Parts She was a patient, tender creature, who did her work well, and she listened with untiring gentleness to M�re Giraud's passionate plaints. Mère Girauds Little Daughter In the opening of 1563 they resolved "to put to their own hands," and without further plaint to Queen or Council to carry out "the punishment that God had appointed to idolaters in his law." History of the English People, Volume IV The plaint of woe is all too low— The dead—they cannot hear! Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands The poor woman had begun her plaint in a manner that was not altogether devoid of a discreet eloquence. Orley Farm Moreover—strange plaint in January in Alaska!—the weather grew so warm that the snow continually balled up under the snow-shoes and clung to the sled and the dogs. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska How unholy a custom, how easy a way to murder he makes for himself Who cuts the innocent throat of the calf, and hears unmoved its mournful plaint! No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes In the next scene we behold Elijah alone, and in a feeble but infinitely tender plaint he resigns himself. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Sylvia did her utmost to keep these plaints from reaching the ears of Nealie, for surely the elder sister had more than enough of worry and care. The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking Even in her inmost thoughts her plaint was this,—that he, her son, should be doomed to suffer so deeply for her sin! Orley Farm But even in her sorrow, because she had been obliged to deny his wistful plaint so heartlessly, she was conscious of relief. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Gone th' last unhappy check; And th' infernal sutlers' prices Make my pocket-book a wreck!—" to the human, piteous plaint that ends it: "Ah! Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Recently two brothers came before him, the younger with the plaint that the elder sought the larger and better part of certain property they had to divide. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier A stopped and stagnant world, full of old men and old plaints, the dead of the yard behind, the solemn and sleepy town before. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Poor woman! she thought she was telling the truth while making these false plaints. Orley Farm Then arose a hubbub compared to which the screams of which Miss Sturgis had complained had been infantile plaints. Peggy Stewart at School How many times had the squaw and her burnt brat, now long since called to the land of their fathers, moaned through the winter nights, making the shanty ring with their piteous plaints! Tess of the Storm Country To be sure he might have shown his strength by breaking loose from family ties, and, hardening his heart to his wife’s plaints, have carried out his ambitions with some degree of success. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Some few plaints he had, wherein he "wept o'er his wounds," but almost all his tales were "tales of valour done." St. Cuthbert's "Close up me die along altogether," was the burden of the old chief's plaint. A Son Of The Sun It wasn't as if Mrs. Folliott, to make up for boring him with her own plaint, for example, had had so much as a gleam of conscious diversion over his. The Finer Grain Hard must be the heart unmoved by those wildest moans, those saddest plaints. Hubert's Wife A Story for You We hear the same plaint from Jonathan Edwards a century later. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth The sensitive nature of the psalmist winces under their heartless desertion of him, and pours out its plaint in this pathetic lament. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms But is there any substance in the plaint that nobody now buys books, meaning thereby second-hand books? Obiter Dicta Second Series No worldly grief Is blustering there, The Church's voice, her tender plaint Scents all the air. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Hazel went about with Amelia Ellen, putting the house in order, hearing the beautiful plaint of the loving-hearted, mourning servant as she told little incidents of her mistress. The Man of the Desert "You are not doing the right thing by me"—such might have seemed his plaint. On the Stairs From almost all sections of the country comes the plaint that the song birds are fast disappearing. Bird Day; How to prepare for it And leave poor plaints to us that shall succeed. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) If the Queen were moved to pray your Grace to pity the striplings, then could the Spaniards make no plaint of too much clemency being shown.” The Armourer's Prentices There she lay on her hard little bed and quaked until Hazel, laughing still, came to find her; but all she could get from the poor soul was a pitiful plaint about Burley. The Man of the Desert Raymond had heard the same plaint from Albert, and was less pleased. On the Stairs As for Miss Munns, she rejoiced with grumbling, as her custom was, mingling thankful speeches with plaints for her own deprivations, to the mingled distress and amusement of her hearers. More about Pixie Priscilla automatically stepped off a mass of blue chiffon, and resumed her plaint. Just Patty Save for a lad's song, far and faint, There is no sound in all the wood; 10 The murmuring pines are still; their plaint At last was heard and understood. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year While at the present day a very talented wailer improvises a new plaint, which her associates take up and perpetuate, the ancient forms are generally used. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Cortes returned to Spain in 1540 from Mexico, once more to lay the plaint of his unjust treatment before Carlos V., a result of his disputes with the first viceroy, Mendoza. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Before the other could let out a "Madonna!" she began her plaint. Little Novels of Italy He caressed words until they sang for him the one plaint that he asked of them. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets The remark was rather a plaint, and Cora came over very close to Helka. The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies And I shall sing; my song, When the green grass answers to my plaint, When in sighs respond to my moan, Then my voice shall be heard in his praise: Linger, lover, linger! Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 Yet it doth please the unwedded girls to carp at thee with plaints fictitious. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus When she grew strong enough she went to the forest and haunted the little creek with her plaints. A Little Girl in Old Detroit A w242hippoorwill was calling in the tangle of cottonwoods and grapevines that grew cool and dark on a little island below them, its plaint as sad as the mourner's own stricken heart. Trail's End The plural is in the grand manner, giving the lie to Cashel Byron's pathetic plaint:— It is a lonely thing to be a champion. Highways and Byways in Sussex They jogged through the hot afternoon over a trail winding under a canopy of foliage shrill with the plaint of myriad insect life. Terry A Tale of the Hill People The chickadees were clinging to the ends of the sprays, as usual, apparently very busy looking for food, and all the time uttering their shrill plaint. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers It has been the plaint of the farmer from time out of mind that he had not representation; that he had not voice in affairs that had to do with his vocation. Watch Yourself Go By There was not much philosophy in him today, not much of anything but a plaint and a denunciation of competition in bones. Trail's End The pathetic plaint given below is ascribed to this goddess. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Have you no doubt, my lords, I'll clap so close Among the lords of France with England's gold, That Isabel shall make her plaints in vain, And France shall be obdurate with her tears. Edward the Second He sat silent and immovable until the light in the valley had quite faded, and the twitter of the birds had been superseded by the monotonous, mournful plaint of a whip-poor-will in a distant tree. Quin While Elena drank the water out of a rude earthenware mug, the woman, with wails and plaints, drew her attention to the wretched infant. The Child of Pleasure His wife, granddaughter of old Nagasaki Chiyari Kurō—he of the "bloody spear"—was the samurai woman, to aid her lord in his duty, not to hold him back with tears and plaints. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 O! ay; dear sir, in troth, 'tis very true; And I am come to make my plaint to you. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales At once I tremble, sparkle, freeze, and burn; Am mute, and fill the air with clamorous plaints. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Now, Effie, don't let me hear you begin that dismal plaint. A Girl in Ten Thousand I thought I might scarcely be able to console you, but I hoped at least you might find relief in having another soul to answer eternally Amen to all your plaints.' The Child of Pleasure From the girl's hand she tore the answer to the lover's plaint. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Protests, plaints, and promises broke uselessly against the cool, composed, indulgent friendliness of her bearing. Quisanté The plaint of a high-flying gull drifted down to the boy. Where the Sun Swings North Its plaint was answered from the water as a second of its kind wallowed ashore. Key Out of Time Socialism is not merely a cry of pain; if it were only that its plaints might have proved more effectual. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 He might have made plaint, and had too long a tongue.... Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 The plaint of Darwin that he had allowed his taste for music and poetry to atrophy could to-day be made by many intellectual specialists. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Softly, almost imperceptibly these waiting ones took up the mournful plaint, sending it floating out thin and high in answer to the approaching bearers of the dead. Where the Sun Swings North The plaint of Xenia in "Boris Godounow" is scarcely more than the underlining of the words, the accentuation of the voice of some simple girl uttering her grief for some one recently and cruelly dead. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers No plaints are heard, save where the restless dove Of coy repulse, and mild reluctance talks. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems When the wolves lifted their weird, melancholy plaint to the cold, star-jeweled skies, she listened without the old shudder. North of Fifty-Three I cannot think why this should be, This bitter plaint of sudden dearth; To write a play would seem to me Almost the easiest thing on earth. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 Gulls floated high on lavender wings, their intermittent plaint answering the Indian voices that drifted up from the beach where the canoes were landing. Where the Sun Swings North Awful and more awful grew Grimalkin's battle plaint—her eyes blazed demoniacally. Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Alice had converted me to the notion that I was a character in a story, a plaything of fate, and I lightly brushed aside Antoine's melancholy plaint. Lady Larkspur Of itself, if there were no other, it is considered a sufficient answer to the German Chancellor's plaint that the United States "brusquely" broke off relations without giving "authentic" reasons for its action. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights And hark! how hollowly the ocean-wave Echoes his plaint, and murmurs deep below! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan Unto the boundless ocean of thy beauty Runs this poor river, charged with streams of zeal, Returning thee the tribute of my duty, Which here my love, my youth, my plaints reveal. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana The birds methinks tune naught but moan, The winds breathe naught but bitter plaint, The beasts forsake their dens to groan; Birds, winds, and beasts, what doth my loss your powers attaint? Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia Unto no one do I take My plaint save to God; for He is the best of judges. Selections From the Writings of the Báb Another half hour elapsed, and except the monotonous plaint of the screw, no sound was to be heard. Stand By The Union That, like a hermit weeping, Amid the gray stones creeping; 30 With voice distinct, yet faint, Calls on Repose herself to hear its soothing plaint. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan Chastity and beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconcilèd friends within her brow; And had she pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now? Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana Love works thy heart within his fire, And in my tears doth firm the same; And if I tempt it will retire, And of my plaints doth make a game. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia To which Virginia most becomingly answers: Refell your mind of mournful plaints, dear mother, rest your mind. The Growth of English Drama The noblest hymns of the liturgy, the Stabat and the Dies Iræ, come to us from the thirteenth century, and we may well say that never has the human plaint been more agonized. Life of St. Francis of Assisi This moving plaint draws attention to a defect which is not yet supplied. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Crows whirred overhead; their hoarse plaint, with its hint of desolation, made a kind of emptiness in the wood, and he went on, step by step, as in a dream, wrapt, expectant. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story And now, ah now, my plaints are quite prevented! Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia Even the plaint of the screech-owl has a tone of human sympathy. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book This is precisely the plaint of modern Germany. The War and the Churches That unfortunate allusion to a miserable exile at Boulogne had completed the work which the former plaints had commenced, and had driven her to a resolution to separate herself from him altogether. Phineas Redux Finally softened by the long loud plaints he returned to his house. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir But plaints and tears, laments and sighs I spend, Yet greater torments do my heart destroy; I could all these from out my heart still send, If after these I might my love enjoy. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia As no sport was there to hear the plaint of Dan, the latter must have despaired of a reply before he put the question. The President A novel Marvel, in his day, felt the numbness creeping on that comes of divorce from nature, and uttered his plaint of "The Mower against Gardens." Nature Mysticism He could not help but voice that plaint, as he had so many times before during that foggy, nightmare journey. Star Born Somewhere from below came the muffled plaint of Rajah. Parrot & Co. You hear my plaint, and ask me, why? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century In the darkness, he could hear the low, wild plaint with which the stream tossed itself over the rocks that cumbered its bed. The Lighted Match Delirious, there was never a plaint in his voice; never a word passed his lips that his own mother might not hear; and when his lips closed, an undaunted spirit kept them firm. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War At first these agonizing plaints filled me with intolerable compassion. The Last Man She was listening to the old plaint: "I have used the old games—I want something new!" The Shield of Silence She confessed, with a pitying sigh, that there was not, but returned to her plaint over the sinfully wasted kopeks. Russian Rambles “Where am I?” she inquired, in a loud, querulous plaint. The Portion of Labor There was a bitterness in all this to Phineas himself of which he could not but make plaint to his companion. Phineas Finn The Irish Member His entire plaint was over the luxuries he must forego, and he made far more ado about a bit of dust soiling his white linen than about any real hardship of the march. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country Considering Mollie's daily plaint, it was a constant source of wonder to him that the girl did not do this; but she seemed wholly satisfied with things as they were. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman With all the moan that may To plaint may turn my song; My life may soon decay, Without redress, by wrong! The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch A roar of unfeeling laughter greeting her familiar plaint, Madame Carlotti took a hitch in her gown and reimprisoned some of her person which had escaped from custody. The Parts Men Play A single month in office ended President Harrison's life, when the plaint of Burke occurred to all, "What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!" General Scott “She—makes—” began Ephraim with a responsive plaint; but his mother came out of the pantry, and he stopped short. Pembroke A Novel This was Hugh's invariable plaint when any one was about whom he disliked. The Black Pearl There now, thou seest, where long of thee had been My sprightlier strain, of thee my plaint I swell— Of thee!—oh, no! of mine own sorrows keen. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Through the damp-charged air the melancholy plaint of a single cow sounded like the warning of rocks on a foggy coast. The Parts Men Play "Wow! did you see that?" gasped Bobolink, proving that his plaint about his eyes closing up could hardly be based on solid ground. The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership She laughs at the plaints of the distressed, and there is nothing more pleasing unto her, than to hear fools boast in her fading allurements, or sorrowful men to discover the sour of their passions. Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy Here the desert silence was like a benediction of peace, broken now and then by the faint, shrill note of an insect, or the occasional soft, mournful plaint of a dove. The Black Pearl |
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